So after careful consideration I decided not to wait Fir batch for few months longer and I asked Purism to change my order to Evergreen V1 version. 
Order Date: December 31, 2018
Verification Email: November 9, 2022
Address Verified: November 9, 2022
Invoice/Shipment: November 14, 2022
Librem 5 Received: November 16, 2022
Received my Librem 5 wednesday !
Order Date: January 4, 2019
Verification Email: November 7, 2022
Address Verified: November 8, 2022
Invoice/Shipment: November 14, 2022
Destination Country: France
Librem 5 Received: November 16, 2022
Order Date: January 3, 2019
Verification Email: November 7, 2022
Address Verified: November 8, 2022
Invoice/Shipment: November 14, 2022
Destination Country: USA
Librem 5 Received: November 18, 2022
Order Date: January 4, 2019
Verification Email: November 7, 2022
Address Verified: November 11, 2022
Invoice/Shipment: November 15, 2022
Destination Country: USA
Librem 5 Received: November 18, 2022Order Date: January 9, 2019
Verification Email: November 15, 2022
Invoice/Shipment: November 17, 2022
Librem 5 Received: November 21, 2022
Destination Country: Germany (Import tax 131Euro)
To build up the anticipation in those ordering later than Toggleton above (Jan. 9, 2019), I received my verification e-mail today (Nov. 22, 2022) for my order dated Jan. 22, 2019! 
Iāll complete the remaining info after receipt.
Sweetā¦Iām Jan 29th, any day now.
Nearly four years and I finally got the address verification email.
Order Date: January 15, 2019
Verification Email: November 22, 2022
Invoice/Shipment: November 30, 2022
Librem 5 Received: December 1, 2022
Destination Country: USA
[edit] Shipped!
[edit2] Got it!
Order Date: January 6, 2019
Verification Email: November 15, 2022
Invoice/Shipment: November 17, 2022
Destination Country: USA
Librem 5 Received: November 22, 2022
Order Date: January 21, 2019
Verification Email: November 21, 2022
Invoice/Shipment: TBD
Librem 5 Received: TBD
Destination Country: USA
Order Date: Q4 2019
Verification Email: none
Address verifiedd: none
Invoice/Shipment: none
Order Date: January 6, 2019
Verification Email: November 15, 2022
Invoice/Shipment: November 17, 2022
Librem 5 Received: November 25, 2022
Destination Country: USA
Order Date: 24 Dec 2018
Verification Email: 24 October 2022
Second Reply to Verification Email: 18 November 2022
Invoice/Shipment: 22 November 2022
Librem 5 at PO Box: 26 November 25, 2022
Recieved: 2 December 2022
Destination Country: USA
I canāt say Iām super impressed with their process here, since my order looks to have āfallen through the cracksā. I initially replied to their verification email the same day it arrived, and got back a āthanks, weāll get it shippedā, and then had to send a followup email asking when I didnāt hear anything further for 3 weeks. To be fair, it was something of a āspecial orderā, since I wanted it sent to a PO Box, which meant USPS instead of their usual carrier, so results may not be typical. I just got hands-on with it, and it came through shipping fine.
The second delay was me not getting to the PO Box due to scheduling and weather, so donāt read anything into it. (The whole reason for sending it to a PO Box was so it could sit safely without risk of āpoorch piratesā, or snow).
Iāve fired it up, and have thoughts. Iāll probably post those here in a bit.
Thatās really cool, first success story with order date after mine (Aug '19). Congrats, dude! Iām a bit more patient now.
From what weāve seen here, the initial address verification email has never been an indication that the phone would ship immediately, only that they were getting ready to finalize it (add the modem, flash the software, test, etc.), probably with a batch of all the other L5s of people they might have just contacted.
Congrats on getting your L5!
Im guessing he meant 24 Dec 2018
This is what I was thinking too. My order date was Jan 30, 2019 and I have not heard anything yet despite Photon (Jan 21, 2019) having received his verification email 11 days ago.
Iām Jan 29th and havenāt gotten any correspondence as of yet.
Thatās fair. 3 weeks seems a little on the long side, but it indeed doesnāt give an ETA on shipping after the confirmation email. Then again, the majority of reports here are within a week or so, including emails sent after mine, which were shipped around Nov 4. Still, that means only a week or so delay, which the odd shipping requirements more easily explains.
Yeah, oops, Iād originally thought Iād ordered Jan 2019, and when I looked it up and saw it was Dec, I changed the month, but not the year.